Francois Knopf
- wildlife
painter –
unusual paintings
Short biography
I was born in 1939 in Lausanne (Switzerland) where I did work as an accountant during numerous years. Actualy with my Dutch wife we are living in a lonely house, on the edge of a wild forest, in Ollon (Switzerland). We have two children.
I started to paint around 18 years old. Up today I have done 29 personal exhibitions of my paintings. A striking event in my painter’s life: an amateur bought all the 41 paintings of one of my exhibitions. And this just before the varnishing day!
I am painting mostly different kinds of animals of big sizes moving in a completely unusual environment. The juxtaposition of excessive worlds from which the unusual of the situation should induce the amazement.
Animals painted in a realistic way but atmospher lightly surreal or in all cases strange. The bison at breakfast and bisons on a training way, the hippopotamus looking for the river, the elephant on the bank of a lake or in a field covered with snow, the bear on the railway or lying in front of a shop, the pig in the sand box, the cat on the butterfly, the horse and the chess game or the horse in the bedroom, the red-deer in a painting studio, the goose in front of the justice court, the frigate birds on the hot water bottle, the game of the goose, the ballon of the jackdaw, the egyptian plover, the brace of partridges, the ruff, the grouse, the hen and the bobbin, the reddish frog etc.
If you would like further information, or to place an order/commission, please email:
francois.knopf@1066artgallery.co.uk